Author Archives: Jef Costello

Jef Costello

Jef Costello is that guy on the New York Subway talking to himself. But he is all right.

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Rage Against the Machine:
A Very American Ring Cycle

Jef Costello

The great Wagner Machine--Siegfried and Brunnhilde in Goetterdaemmerung

The great Wagner Machine–Siegfried and Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung

2,427 words

It heaves and groans. It shimmies and clicks. One holds one breath during the best parts, hoping it will not malfunction and ruin the whole evening. One fears for the performers, halfway expecting it to devour them.

« Vous êtes la merde de ce Monde prête à servir à tout. »
Fight Club, comme vision sainte

Jef Costello

13,182 words

English original here

Je suis le singe de l’espace le plus dévoué de Jack

J’ai hésité à écrire un essai sur Fight Club pendant quelque temps, puisque cela signifierait le viol des deux premières règles du Fight Club. Read more …

Published: April 7, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Brad Pitt, Chuck Palahniuk, Edward Norton, emasculation, end of history, fascism, feminism, Fight Club, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Helena Bonham Carter, homosexuality, in French, in translation, Jef Costello, manliness, movie reviews, philosophy, religion, the last man, the Männerbund, thumos, Tyler Durden | Comments closed

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La réalité du Mal

Jef Costello

Arno Breker sculptures in 1945

1,950 words

English original here

Je suppose que je suis un enfant de 45 ans. Quand vous êtes petit, vous pensez que tous les adultes sont bons et ont vos intérêts à cœur. Read more …

Published: January 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Ayn Rand, Ellsworth Toohey, ethics, evil, in French, in translation, Jef Costello, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, The Fountainhead | Comments closed

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My New Year’s Resolutions

Jef Costello

Image courtesy of Harold Arthur McNeill

2,790 words

Every year, near the end of December, I establish plans for the coming year. The centerpiece of these plans is ten resolutions – no more, and no less. I’ve had a lot of practice at this, and I’ve discovered that more than ten major resolutions is usually too ambitious, whereas fewer than ten is not ambitious enough. Read more …

Published: December 29, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Jef Costello, living well, New Year's Resolutions, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Swatting Flies:
Reflections on Men & Murder

Jef Costello

Hercules battles the hydra

4,531 words

Recently I suffered a plague of flies. It started small, with just a couple. I noticed one buzzing around the living room, moving at a fairly leisurely clip. It was easy to kill, a deed I committed with a dish towel. Read more …

Published: November 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, evolutionary psychology, Jef Costello, manliness, North American New Right, originals, sadism, sociopathy, violence, war | Comments closed

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Skyfall

Jef Costello

3,353 words

SPOILER ALERT! Do not read this essay until you have seen Skyfall. I would not want to ruin your experience of seeing the best James Bond film in many years.

Bond films always seem to be judged “good” or “bad” relative to other Bond films. But Skyfall is not only a good Bond film, it’s a good film period. Read more …

Published: November 13, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged James Bond, Jef Costello, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Skyfall | Comments closed

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The Importance of James Bond

Jef Costello

10,747 words

The James Bond films turn fifty this year, an event commemorated by the eagerly-anticipated release of the 23rd Eon Productions 007 epic Skyfall. Read more …

Published: November 8, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, England, globalization, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Jef Costello, Julius Evola, manliness, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, myth, North American New Right, originals, Skyfall, technology, the Jewish question, Traditionalism, white heroism | Comments closed

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May the Whiter Man Win

Jef Costello

2,306 words

Mitt Romney is my guy! Not that I actually intend to vote for him. I probably won’t – unless certain things stirring within me just overcome my better judgment Read more …

Published: October 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2012 US Presidential Election, articles, Barack Obama, Jef Costello, Mitt Romney, North American New Rights, originals, presidential debates, racism, thumos | Comments closed

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You Must Change Your Life

Jef Costello

Jean-Léon Gérôme, “Diogenes,” 1860

1,688 words

This is one of the shortest essays I will ever write. If I could get it down to a haiku, I’d be delighted. But the truth is that it doesn’t need to be long, and it probably couldn’t be any shorter.

Why I Live in the Past

Jef Costello

2,110 words

I don’t like the present very much. So I live in the past.

Just about everything about this day and age depresses and angers me. The ignorance, the lies, the vulgarity, the hypocrisy, the bad manners. Read more …

Published: August 2, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, conservatism, Dark Shadows, Dark Shadows series, Jef Costello, living well, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Why Dark Shadows Sucks

Jef Costello

3,548 words

I was a very small child when the Dark Shadows serial was first airing on ABC at 4:00pm Monday through Friday. Some of my most vivid early memories are associated with it. Dark Shadows was originally conceived as a Gothic romance. Premiering on June 27, 1966, it centered on Victoria Winters, a young woman who takes the job of governess to the young scion of the wealthy Collins family, who reside in the spooky Collinwood mansion in spooky Collinsport, Maine. Read more …

Published: May 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Dark Shadows, Dark Shadows movie review, Dark Shadows review, Jef Costello, Johnny Depp, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, Tim Burton | Comments closed

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Memories of Jonathan Bowden

Jef Costello

Jonathan Bowden in the Wild West

1,281 words

I first saw Jonathan Bowden speak in 2009. It was the most rousing speech I had ever heard. I was sitting at table with a number of like-minded friends, and by the end of the speech we were all ready to follow Jonathan over the barricades. Read more …

Published: May 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, commemorations, Jef Costello, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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I am an Off-the-Chart Narcissist

Jef Costello

2,556 words

Recently I was doing some research for a projected essay on the “pickup artist” phenomenon, when I came across a rather interesting piece in Psychology Today titled “How to Spot a Narcissist.” Read more …

Published: April 9, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Aristotle, articles, egalitarianism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jef Costello, narcissism, North American New Right, originals, psychology | Comments closed

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Breaking Bad: A Celebration

Jef Costello

2,527 words

1. Yo biyotch, this show is the bomb!

Breaking Bad is the greatest television series ever made.

Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men

Jef Costello

5,809 words

Jack Donovan
The Way of Men
Portland, Or.: Dissonant Hum, 2012

1. The Way of Men is the Way of the Gang

How do you define masculinity? If you listen to today’s feminist-approved “authorities” on the subject you will be told either that masculinity means nothing at all — that it is “constructed” differently from place to place or time to time — or you will be told that masculinity is now being “redefined.” Read more …

Published: March 26, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Aristotle, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Christianity, courage, D. H. Lawrence, emasculation, ethics, feminism, Fight Club, Friedrich Nietzsche, honor, Jack Donovan, Jef Costello, manliness, neo-paganism, paganism, Plato, sex roles, sexuality, the Männerbund, The Way of Men, thumos, violence | Comments closed

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Gangway for a Führer!
Proto-Fascist Cinema of the Great Depression

Jef Costello

6,933 words

1. “Brother, can you spare a Duce?”

Apparently, that was the question on the lips of many Americans during the early years of the Great Depression. Read more …

Published: February 14, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Ayn Rand, Benito Mussolini, fascism, Frank Capra, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gabriel over the White House, Gregory La Cava, Jef Costello, King Vidor, Meet John Doe, movie reviews, North American New Right, Our Daily Bread, Prohibition, The Fountainhead, the Great Depression, Third Way economics, William Randolph Hearst | Comments closed

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“Guys”

Jef Costello

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

1,633 words

“Hi guys!” said the waitress.

She was speaking to me and my mother. The restaurant was the Olive Garden, and it was in the mid-1990s. I felt affronted on two levels. First, it was far too informal a way to refer to patrons; unforgivably familiar, really. Second, I was not there with one of my “guy” friends at all. I was there with my grey-haired, sixty-something year-old mother. Read more …

Published: January 26, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, D. H. Lawrence, egalitarianism, Jef Costello, manners, North American New Right, originals, prole drift | Comments closed

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“You Are the All-Singing, All-Dancing Crap of the World”
Fight Club as Holy Writ

Jef Costello

11,660 words

French translation here

1. I am Jack’s Most Devoted Space Monkey

I have hesitated to write an essay on Fight Club for some time, as it would mean breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Read more …

Published: January 9, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Brad Pitt, Chuck Palahniuk, Edward Norton, emasculation, end of history, fascism, feminism, Fight Club, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Helena Bonham Carter, homosexuality, Jef Costello, manliness, movie reviews, philosophy, religion, the last man, the Männerbund, thumos, Tyler Durden | Comments closed

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Dystopia is Now!

Jef Costello

4,648 words

Whatever happened to the Age of Anxiety? In the post-war years, intellectuals left and right were constantly telling us — left and right — that we were living in an age of breakdown and decay. Read more …

Published: January 4, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, articles, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Brave New World, dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, Francois Truffaut, George Orwell, Jean Raspail, Jef Costello, Nineteen Eighty-Four, North American New Right, originals, Ray Bradbury, The Camp of the Saints, thumos, white dispossession | Comments closed

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The Bulls from Brazil
Aryan Cows?

Jef Costello

1,031 words

The second rune in the Elder Futhark is “uruz,” and it refers to the “aurochs,” a familiar fixture in the lives of our ancestors. The aurochs was a very large beast, about the size of rhino, and was the ancestor of today’s cattle. Read more …

Published: October 25, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, aurochs, Jef Costello, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, satire | Comments closed

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